V. Joseph Hotz

Current Positions and Affiliations
Research Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics & Public Policy, Department of Economics, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Principal Investigator, Great Smoky Mountains Study of Rural Aging, University of Vermont, Duke University & NORC-UChicago

Principal Investigator, Add Health Parent Study, Duke University & UNC-Chapel Hill

Research Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin

Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Research Interests
Labor Economics, Population Economics, Applied Econometrics, Evaluation of Impact of Social Programs

Curriculum Vita

My Curriculum Vita (in PDF format)

“Disparities in Parents’ Morbidity and Mortality and the Intergenerational Consequences for Families in the U.S.” (with Emily Wiemers, HwaJung Choi, Robert Schoeni and Judith Seltzer), unpublished manuscript April 2021.

“Resources, Composition and Family Decision-Making,” (with Michel Dalton and Duncan Thomas), Unpublished manuscript, June 2016.

Hotz, V. Joseph and Vladislav Slanchev. Designing Consent Protocols to Link Sensitive Health and Administrative Records in Social Science Surveys: Phase I, Duke Population Research Institute, September 1, 2017.
Measuring Stress, Well-Being & Connectedness across Two Generations with Mobile Technologies: A Feasibility Study, Final Report. (with C. Odgers, A. Caspi, N. Jokerst, M. Brooke, B. Fuemmeler, K. Oi, K.M. Harris, Y.C. Yang, Joy Piontak, V. Slanchev) Duke Population Research Institute (DUPRI) and Duke Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA), June 20, 2017.

Testimony before Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, Ralphe H. Metcalfe Federal Building, Chicago, Illinois, January 5, 2017.

The Earned Income Tax Credit: Overview and Findings of Its Impacts & Consequences, presentation at conference, Learning about the Earned Income Tax Credit, sponsored by West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy and Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Charleston, West Virginia, January 11, 2016.

The Earned Income Tax Credit: State EITCs, Noncompliance, & Wages for Low-Skilled Jobs, presentation at conference, Economic Inclusion: Tools to Build the Financial Strength of Low-Income Families and Communities, sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 31, 2015.

Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation: Recommendations, (with S.P. Morgan, C. Bledsoe, S. Bianchi, P.L. Chase-Lansdale, T. DiPrete, S. Sanders, J. Seltzer, and D. Thomas), Final Report to Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, July 2008.

An Assessment of Available Data, and Data Needs for Studying Intra- and Inter-Generational Family Relationships and Behavior, (with S. Bianchi, V. J. Evans, K. McGarry, J. Seltzer), California Center for Population Research Working Paper CCPR-020-07, June 2007.

Welfare Reform in California: Early Results from the Impact Analysis, (with J. Klerman, E. Reardon, A. Cox, D. Farley, S. Haider, G. Imbens and R. Schoeni), Report MR-1358-CDSS, RAND, 2002.

Welfare Reform in California: Design of the Impact Analysis, (with J. Klerman, G. Imbens, P. Steinberg, E. Reardon, P. Ebener, J. Hawes-Dawson), Report MR-1266.0-CDSS, RAND, 2000.

Administrative Data for Policy-Relevant Research: Assessment of Current Utility and Recommendations for Development, A Report of the Advisory Panel on Research Uses of Administrative Data of the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, V. Joseph Hotz, Robert Goerge, Julie Balzekas and Francis Margolin, editors, January 1998.

Online supplemental materials for Aucejo, E., F. Bugni and V. J. Hotz, “Identification and Inference on Regressions with Missing Covariate Data,” (with Esteban Aucejo and Federico Bugni), Econometric Theory, 33(1), 2017, 196-241.

Questionnaire for Phase 1 of the Duke College Major and Expectations Survey (DuCMES). May 2009. Used in P. Arcidiacono, V. J. Hotz and S. Kang, “Modeling the College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals,” Journal of Econometrics, 166(1), January 2012, 3-16.

Questionnaire for Phase 3 of the Duke College Major and Expectations Survey (DuCMES). July 2013. Used in P. Arcidiacono, V. J. Hotz, A. Maurel and T. Romano, “Ex Ante Returns and Occupational Choice,” unpublished manuscript, February 2017.

Tables with Complete Set of Estimates for Hotz, V. J. and M. Xiao, “The Impact of Regulations on the Supply and Quality of Care in Child Care Markets,” American Economic Review, 101(5), August 2011, 1775-1805.

Additional Proofs for Crump, R., V. J. Hotz, G. Imbens and O. Mitnik, “Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), August 2008, 389-405.
Unpublished Appendix and Extra Tables for Hotz, V. J., G. Imbens and J. Klerman, “Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program,” Journal of Labor Economics, 24(3), July 2006, 521-566.
Detailed Data Appendix for Hotz, V. J., S. McElroy and S. Sanders, “Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment,” Journal of Human Resources. 40(3), Summer 2005, 683-715.